NY Times

    * Charles M. Blow

    * David Brooks

    * Roger Cohen

    * Gail Collins

    * Ross Douthat

    * Maureen Dowd

    * Thomas L. Friedman

    * Bob Herbert

    * Nicholas D. Kristof

    * Paul Krugman

    * Frank Rich

Washington Post

* Joel Achenbach

* Anne Applebaum

* E.J. Dionne

* Robert Kagan

* Ruth Marcus

* Dana Milbank

* Courtland Milloy

* Kathleen Parker

* Robert Samuelson

* George Will

* Fareed Zakaria

Wall Street Journal

L. Gordon Crovitz

Pete du Pont

Thomas Frank

John Fund

Daniel Henninger

Holman W. Jenkins Jr

William McGurn

Peggy Noonan

Mary Anastasia O'Grady

Kimberley A. Strassel

Bret Stephens

James Taranto

LA Times

Meghan Daum

Jonah Goldberg

Doyle McManus

Patt Morrison

Gregory Rodriguez

Tim Rutten

Chicago Tribune

Eric Zorn

Dawn Rice Turner

Mary Schmich

Kathleen Parker

Clarence Page

Garrison Keillor

John Kass

Steve Johnson

Steve Dahl

Steve Chapman

Barbara Brotman

ESPN.com

Gene Wojciechowski

Howard Bryant

Jemele Hill

Jeffri Chadiha

Jerry Crasnick

Greg Garber

Mechelle Voepel

David Newton

Bonnie Ford

Ed Hinton

Newsweek

Anna Quindlen — rarely these days as she’s in an editorial role now

Lisa Miller

Wray Herbert

Howard Fineman

Daniel Gross

Sharon Begley

Jonathan Alter

Other sources, but too many writers to list

New Yorker

Economist

Vanity Fair

Sports Illustrated

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